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Originally Posted by masraum

It's just really not as big a concern as the news makes it into (it's their interest to make as big a deal out of things as possible and get people excited/scared). I live in the third largest city in the US, and while I am generally an observant/aware person, I don't worry about it that much or spend that much time thinking about it.

It happens here more because we have a lot of people living here.

USA 330 million (#3 in the world behind China and India)
Australia 25 million (#55 in the world)

You've got about as many folks as the New York City metropolitan area spread out in an area that's not too far from the size of our whole country. (2.95million sq miles vs 3.53 million sq miles).


The same goes for Canada (slightly more people than Australia, but still only 38 in the world)



Maybe if folks in Canada thought about stuff more these things would have been avoided? Sheisse happens anywhere that there are people. The fewer the people and the more spread out they are, the less it happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/americas/canada-murder-mystery-monday/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-shooting-fredericton-4-deaths-police-say-live-updates-2018-08-10/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/canada-dead-14-injured-toronto-shooting-180723051648349.html



apparently not completely safe.

When we were in Chicago a month ago I saw at least one kids with a pistol stuffed in his pants. I wanted to take him aside and tell him that it printed pretty bad with seat pants with the t shirt tucked in. Then I remembered where I was and kept walking. Just prior, they confiscated my EDC folding knife because the 2" blade was 2" over the limit for the Shedd Aquarium. None of the other museums had an issue with it. I didn't even remember I had it with me at the time.